Despised Icon, Carnifex, Suffocation

Effigy Presents  Despised Icon, Carnifex, Suffocation Plus Special Guests Gates To Hell   Bristol! Brace yourself for 2026’s most stacked night of deathcore ft. not one, not two, but THREE headline sets!! Montreal’s DESPISED ICON, San Diego’s CARNIFEX and New York’s, SUFFOCATION. What’s more, Louisville’s GATES TO HELL complete this utterly crushing bill as your openers! Pick your jaw up off the floor and grab your tickets now.  Deathcore pioneers, DESPISED ICON, returned with their seventh full-length, ’Shadow Work’, in Oct 2025. The album features guest vocals from the likes of Matt Honeycutt (Kublai Khan TX), Scott Ian Lewis (Carnifex) and Tom Barber (Chelsea Grin) and stands as their most fine-tuned and dynamic effort to date.  After 18-years, CARNIFEX, continue to experiment, remaining steadily progressive with fresh song arrangements, while adding a sense of atmosphere to their inherently deathcore foundation. There is no shortage of blood, as demonstrated on 2023’s, ’Necromanteum’.  SUFFOCATION are death metal legends! The band released the scene’s foundational classics; ‘Effigy of The Forgotten' (1991), ‘Breeding The Spawn’ (1993) and ‘Pierced From Within’ (1995), before returning with a post-reformation slab of savagery in ‘Souls to Deny’ (2004) and ‘Suffocation’ (2006). On their ninth full-length, ‘Hymns from the Apocrypha’ (2023), they push the very edges of extremity.  Relative newcomers, GATES TO HELL, fuse the finest elements of metal and hardcore, highlig